How the U.S. Capitol Insurrection Can Be Traced Back to RED DAWN
80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents - A podcast by 80s Movie Guide
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Wolverines! Red Dawn is one of the few teen action films of the '80s -- and definitely the most influential. It showed that teens were responsible, skilled, and capable enough to save their town and, possibly, the United States. It's a blow 'em up, shoot 'em up, and set them on fire pic. But the intended message never reached its young audience and the result, as hosts Tara McNamara (Gen X) and Riley Roberts (Gen Z) identify, is that the film has continued to inspire in all the wrong ways.